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Social software in law firms

Posted in Information, Lawyering, Sharing, Web2.0 on 6 October 2008 | No Comments »

About ten days ago, I attended a law firm breakfast meeting hosted by Headshift, the social software consultancy. Penny Edwards has blogged about the event and posted the presentation on Slideshare. It was a really interesting meeting and discussion, and well worth the very early start I had to make to get there from Manchester.
The presentation [...]

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Lowering the sharing threshold

Posted in Culture, KM, Management, Sharing, Technology, Web2.0 on 28 April 2008 | 2 Comments »

A common meme in knowledge management is that “people don’t share knowledge.” Here are a few examples:

http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/2004/03/why_people_dont.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5362/is_200605/ai_n21391376
http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/0504/0504covstory_share.asp
http://www.skyrme.com/updates/u64_f1.htm

The non-sharing statement is usually coupled with a set of purported justifications, and may also include a solution. However, I am not sure that the basic proposition is correct. In my experience, people are naturally willing to share what they [...]

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